. It Gets Dark – Holy Ghost! – The last disco band in the world have lost nothing with this synth and drums old fashioned house party track, an atmospheric piece of eerieness that propels it self on Halloween-y slash and redrum – Grade: B+
I cant say I hate him but its the repetition of his songs on radio rotation that have pushed my tolerance out the window. I will say he has a great title on his album ‘Doo Wop and Hooligans’ but other than that I am not so sure that his fans are up this late.
Dolenz has a new album out Remember, “Sugar Sugar” and a tremendous “Good Morning Good Morning” are both on it and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Dolenz was wonderful, he stepped out of his own shadow and performed the set the late great Davy Jones owed us in February
Oh I totally see why these kids are all over the lyrics now! ‘Cause we were kissing for hours with her hands in my trousers’, screamed Gareth in the first song they played ‘By Your Hand’,… ‘I will wake, I will bake phallic cake’ in ‘Romance Is Boring’,… ‘Your tongue the tide/your lips the shore/I am the jetsam overboard’ in ‘Hello Sadness’,
Roseland is a straight, long floor, and if you are at the back there is nothing to do but listen to people buy drinks and get hassled, jostled, bumped into and irritated by fatheaded fans.
Lazzara’s stage presence is great, simply because he could lay down for the whole show and be a phenomenal performer. He’s so charismatic and that alone could make up for any missed notes and any lyric mess ups
Its good to see him living a normal life, its not so good to have him describe as such. But wait, isn’t David famous for being pale?
I have read that the more we remember an event, the more we try to assemble this little movie of what happened in our head the more our memory of it drifts away from reality. Memory is a strange animal, it actually doesn’t work like a movie, more like a puzzle we try to put together each time we remember an event, and we don’t necessarily get the same assemblage each time.
I felt like I was hit in the face. It was stunning. I called the police and when they arrived, the police went through it with him and then he caught himself and said that they cannot check in any longer as he didn’t feel “safe.” He then refused to talk.’
Everything is running like clockwork. It is so digital, on the mark, smart as help, sure no problem for sooooo many people. If the country was half as well organized…
. Labrador – Aimee Mann – This song not sticking with the rest of the world, let alone with me, is an indictment of a world where an album has 15 minutes to make an impression before the next one is here to take your attention away. This is a terrific song about fidelity but you really have to give it a little time for the melody to glue itself – Grade: B
But that isn’t where Killer Mike is at ALL THE TIME. On RAP Music, he is too hard, on stage he is something else jumping off the stage and spending the last two songs dancing and rhymin’ with us, his arms around a fan, going round and round and round.
Pitchfork meet the rapper in a New York gun range to do some freestyle and fire some rounds, and everyone agree that Keef holding a gun was highly insensitive to Chicago’s recent crime victims.
Wild Nothing have played ethereal melodies for college kids who might be stoned or might be smoking tea for three years now, and if the first album is the best, the latest, Nocturne, isn’t unconscionable.
17 holiday classics that have been tumbled up and redone right in time for your Yule log.
Alternative, folk, electronica and even blue grass is featured in a very short time span.
I may see them again during one of these Monday residencies at the Echo or the Satellite, or at another occasion, but for now ‘The Loose EP’ is available for download everywhere on iTunes, Amazon,… as well as on their website, where you can even get the song ‘Mind My Halo’ for free in exchange of your email address.
It’s nostalgic with dancing Woodstock hippies and pure Neil Young’s progression chords, the melody reminding some of his greatest songs,… so let’s the good times roll and watch it below:
Seems those celebs are always sobbing about some pet charity. I cannot stand seeing grown men cry cuz they’re so touched by children who were born with horns or women with degenerative gum disorder
you know how some weeks, all the new releases jumle into one big mess of sound, and there is no real difference between # 1 and # 7? This ain’t that, the new K’NAAN hijacked my spotify and held it ransom
Go – Killer Mike – On stage, he has a deeper voice and on this song, he has a spirit so playful much of the bad humor that inflicts rap disappears in a community. This song didn’t stand out on the album, but after hearing it live it is so much more than a clever tongue twister. It is loud, brash and lots of fun – Grade: A
I didn’t know she was that big nor did she apparently, as she repeated a few times she was freaking out because the crowd was crazy big. And the crowd was insane for her, especially the young girls screaming as if she was one of the Beatles,… or Skrillex
I couldn’t even review the video for this song, released on October 14th, because it was just as boring as the song. What is the point of a music video that is comprised of the artist waving his arms around at the camera while rapping
One thing is for sure, Jigga was in great voice. Nerves might have made him less eloquent, but it didn’t effect his ability to rap, and through 8 career spanning tracks, he flips and spits with eloquence and precision
For one thing, a lot of the guys had breasts now. And they were al much younger than me, that never happened before. Inexplicable, right
‘The pyramid seems to represent the power structures of the world. Turning it upside down is a gesture as to what we think of that
If there were a fist fight my dough would be on Rob without a doubt. That man can whip you with a dreadlock. But Manson and Zombie are touring together and all is not well.
remember how I bet the rent they would tour this year. well, i won the bet, plus, if Richards had been up to speed it would have been a lot more than four shows, so i win and you suck.
Kids Company” a British charity which provides support to vulnerable children will be the recipients of the proceeds from the Coldplay art show. Coldplay art? Actually album art-
he embodies furious rock revival and I know that because I saw him and his band live a few times. The night he played at the Echoplex, the energy went to the roof and there were more people jumping from the stage than divers jumping in an Olympic pool last summer in London.
Although Twisted Sister is disturbing to look at, I think a Manson, Zombie or even Gwar would have fit better. I love the idea of sending old rockers out to sea though.
M&L have been hard at work for years to pull this off, and so congratulate them, but I’ll take MGK, to be perfectly honest. Otherwise, the younger generation of rock nyc writers fave All Time Low beat out Ellie, and Mumford And Sons is no fluke while Muse might be.
The Maroon 5 album this comes from has been around since June, so with this their third smash, figure mission accomplished. Which is more than you can say for Adele WHO DID NOT MAKE THE TOP TEN SINGLES!!! Amazing, right? Is it over that fast? Surely not. PS: TS’s album in slices appears to be working fine. but except for “Never Ever” it is selling to the base. Conclusion: the base is huge.
Wild Boy Remix – MGK – Yes, bitch, he is Steve-O and yes, bitch, this is about as much fun as hip hop gets with a guest list of, well, many, and a nice back track that sounds like it escaped from a Hitchcock movie, MGK seems to be be having a blast with his homies – Grade: B+
Xavier Rudd is a one-man band, playing multiple instruments at the same time, using many guitars, stomp box, harmonica and percussion during his set, switching to a full drum set for some songs, even incorporating indigenous Australian didgeridoos
So while six year old girls die all day long, we don’t know about it. But we know about this one, we got a sense of this lively lovely girl Alanna Routh, and that youngsters loss feels terrible. It sucks.
It’s the same old wanna be cool hipster crap we are served from time to time when someone gets a bee in their bonnet that they’re more ‘fringe’ and ‘cutting edge’ than they really are. Simply said whomever booked this gig wanted to see Taylors full monty and got it
Nelly and his entourage were all detained, but one of the guys, Brian Keith, took the responsibility and said drugs and gun were his, meaning Nelly and the other guys were free to go.
Four days four nights from Fort Lauderdale to Labadee Haiti. When did Haiti become a destination? It’s the Hell Boat. This got me thinking that maybe this is our way of getting back at those pesky pirates
Neither performer are what I would dub wild populists, on their Facebook page they name “Silence” as their influence and I sincerely believe them,.. And on stage Jack hardly says a word and he is the absolute life of the party! Oli stared at his keyboards for the entire , admittedly short, set.
‘I almost killed myself about three, four, seven times. I literally started planning my death and what I would leave behind, and what I was gonna write. Three or four times in my life.”
A new DVD/cd combo is being released on November 13 in celebration of their ridiculous and long career. Revealing the highs and lows of their forty years of business all the band members and producers throw in their two cents here.
She looks great, gorgeous, and she doesn’t need the publicity so she is doing it because she looks so beautiful. Sexy but more than that, a sort of depth of sensuality and a grown up facade after years of being something of a child
Previously unheard songs recorded by late rocker Ian Dury are to be released alongside a book filled with the singer/songwriter’s scrawled notes and photographs.
it isn’t as though you just plug in and play, you actually have to be screened and approved. I read where they received around 10,000 requests this year!
”They have some new music that’s going to be added to the film…Some pretty huge artists have approached Baz and are writing songs for the film, and I don’t think Warner Bros. are going to turn down Prince and Lady Gaga knocking down your door.”
Bulletproof Pride – K’Naan – It is really a wonder that since U2 refused to perform those big beautiful ballads that made them famous, nobody has really stepped up to fill the gap. Coldplay from time to time but otherwise, not unlike Bruce Springsteen, any pretenders have been sort of useless. But this year, we’ve had “Magic” from muse and now this Somalian bore nails the door shut with Bono taking lead vocals. Makes you miss the old Irish bastard – Grade: A
Now that they are on the top of the ticket stub, though, they have found a balance between all the genres they are capable of. From house to dubstep, and from jam to hip-hop, they are truly, for me, the most randomly perfect act in EDM right now.
He has a record label distributed by SONY, he has a family of musicians who play upon each others records for True Groove Records, he gets to play whatever he likes for whoever he likes whenever he likes, release the music, tour, and grow his Label and concept larger and larger
Do you think music is a commodity, that a song matters only if it has a money value?’ asked Kun. The problem is that it is no longer a commodity since everything is free on the internet now. ‘The real currency of an artist is to grow your database’ said Trent Reznor.
Hendrix, Joplin, and Morrison were proactively making the early transition from rock star to worm food (they would combine to release 3, 478,279 posthumous records). On a positive note, John Prine released what was both his debut and career album, Marvin Gaye took Motown soul into the world of political consciousness, and the Rolling Stones raised glucose levels throughout the English speaking world
